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BMH UK's campaign to secure a ban on the illicit practice of police deploying Taser against patients detained under the Mental Health Act on locked psychiatric wards is a step closer to becoming law, as an amendment to the Policing and Crime Bill, by former minister for mental health Norman Lamb MP, supporting BMH UK's demands has been re-tabled for debate in the House of Lords.

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